Mr Lear: A life of art and nonsense

Second-Hand Hardback | Published by: Faber & Faber 2017 | ISBN: 9780571269549. 1st edition. Book Condition – VG-. Dust Jacket – N/A. Hand signed by author to title-page. No dust jacket, as issued. Damp staining to cloth spine and 1/10 of the bottom edge of the textblock. Otherwise crisp, clean and tightly bound. Jenny Uglow’s beautifully illustrated biography, full of the colour of the age, brings us his swooping moods, passionate friendships and restless travels/ Above all it shows how this uniquely gifted man lived all his life on the boundaries of rules and structures, disciplines and desires – an exile of the heart.